The Palm Tree is sinking. The project that’s in
Everything in this world now is artificial, the palm island, on the drive to Abu Dhabi from Dubai you can notice the artificial sea on your right, a part of the wave project (they are building an extended land on the sea), The Blue City in Bahrain & Sawadi (the artificial lakes inside it), in Abu Dhabi I heard they are making an artificial Island that’s gonna have water land on it.
My dad used to work for the ministry of fisheries and agriculture in
This means less fish for us Omanis in the long run (too long to explain how stuff works).
With all these projects today, broken down mountains, artificial islands & lakes. Aren’t we affecting the weather in some way? The system that God has put/set on us has been moved, I’m not really a biologist or anything close to that but won’t changing the shape of earth cause bad weather and deadly storms?!
G
19 comments:
interesting post. i didnt know that about share3 el7ub or as i prefer to call it share3 elkhaleej. things like that are never publicized. what a shame. the public should know. thats a semilong swim for the fishs to swadi or bandar khairan. shouldnt they have thought of an alternative around the same area before going on with the road project?
dont have to be biologist to figure out all this building and breaking down will somehow effect the weather and the eco system.
A lot of us tried to stop share3 al 7ob when it was announced in 2000, but the reason was because the road was going to build right on top of a mangrove nature reserve. Unfortunately it was built based on orders right from the top, it just had to be built. We had reports from some of the top environmental advisors in the country detailing the harm the project would cause in the area. There were long articles written in the newspapers about it. Letters were sent to the Diwan. The road was still built in record time.
Whatever harm share3 al 7ob causes is probably not evena tiny fraction of what the palm islands will do to the gulf.
Palms in Dubai are sinking... and in Qatar, instead of learning from the others' mistakes, we are fast pushing for the Pearl Project (virtually the same as Palms, just different shape).
I won't be buying the luxury apartment there as yet...
A very interesting and concerning issue, an issue that I think should be given much more attention. I enjoyed the rather informative post :)
Towards the end of your post you questioned whether such actions would ultimately affect the weather. There's a theory that summarises all of this called The Butterfly Effect (no, its not the movie), its also known as The Chaos Theory. Basically its speaks of how the smallest of changes to something could end up producing a chaotic outcome. I hope that's what you're talking about.
I am sure many of you know that Qurm is Mangrove in English. As Muscati stated , mangrove trees/Qurum is the best place for fish to lay their eggs due to the warm tempretures and to the fact that Qurm trees survive on Salted water.
Though I heard my dad mention a few days ago that they would be planting mangrove trees throughout the Omani coast to encourage fishes to lay their eggs beside the shore. Maybe this is their way of rectifying this environmental catastrophe.
Very interesting post G. You should talk to S about this issue since she's in the evironmental field.
As lym & muscati state, Qurum is the arabic word for mangrove and as i understood it, mangroves normally grow in Brakesh water or however that's spelt. Its a mix of salt and fresh water. Its a shame the government would allow such a reserve to be destroyed. However, recently i noticed that Oman's got a vast growth of mangroves and high environmental potential and unlike other arab countries we pay great attention to issues involving the environment. During my Eid trip down to the interior, i noticed quite a large number of mangroves around different area.
All in all, its dissapointing that share3 al 7ob was a product or destroying the nature, eventhough, you can still find mangroves at the end of the road.
Thanx everyone
LYM is right. Yes they are planning to plant mangrove trees through out the coast, if im not wrong Abu Dhabi are doin somthing like that now and its working fine but for how long and what are they to expect in 3 years from now (allah a3lam). they can only know with time if things turn out to be fine or not.
which to me, i think its not such a professional way of doing stuff.
Arabian Prince - I was talkin about the butterflly effect, for some reason i think us (here in the gulf) we don't add that in the business/project plan before we start acting on it. I think thats a major risk we are taking.
G
Has anyone heard about the Weather city they are planning to build in Dubai?! apparently its gonna be a city that has SOME1 controlling the weather (Rainy, Stormy...)
And there is an other city in Dubai thats called the Rotating city i think. Every morning you wake up and open the curtains, you'll have a different view. A whole city that rotates..
:Shock:
G
By the way the mangrove project which will build thousands of mangrove trees on the coast is funded by the Japanese government and there will be a mangrove information center built in the Qurum park right next to the share3 al 7ob parking lot.
I've learnt something new from every comment.. thanks people! :D
Muscati, I thought it would be a Mangrove museum, not just an information center.
its interesting how u say their going to build all those things in dubai, its literally turned into this superficial city , that will soon be a major turn off to the rest of the world!
Oman is a beautiful country , it'll seriuosly be a shame to loose it to all this man made distructive/ useless entertainment!!
I so agree it is a shame everything is becomin man made..
Lets see how things turn to be when they here.. Im sure things will improve but how do we compare it to what we would have had if nothin was destroyed
theirs no way u can compare it... because what you once had is now lost, and thinking about it will just keeping bringing up the " what if " question !!
might as well just live with it and somehow try to accept the realities of it.
theirs no way u can compare it... because what you once had is now lost, and thinking about it will just keeping bringing up the " what if " question !!
might as well just live with it and somehow try to accept the realities of it.
Shoodoo doesn't the environmental government have a role in this?! Shouldn't they speak up or do something?!
The ministry pf Agriculture that is and whateva regulators you have there
G
:) hehehehe.. u just gamme a strong reason to have a very good discussion with me pops.
thank u
G
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